To apply for a Creative Writing Course:

Make sure your the name of your writing sample file contains the following:

Your first name

Your last name

Your UNI

Submit the appropriate Google Form with your writing sample attached by 11:59pm, January 7, 2019.

Writing Sample Guidelines:

Writing samples should be creative and appropriate to the courses requested: 4-6 pages of fiction or personal narrative for prose writing courses, 3-4 pages of poetry for poetry writing, a scene or short story with dialogue for playwriting.

They should be neat, typed, and double-spaced.

They should not be expository or primarily analytical. No genre fiction (e.g., fantasy, zombies, YA, etc.), please.

Please Note:

Students are unable to self-register for Barnard creative writing courses. Once students put the course on their online schedule, they will be automatically placed on the wait list. If they are accepted, the professor will take them off the wait list, but until that time no one is officially registered for the class.

You may not enroll in two creative writing courses simultaneously. (Please also note that screenwriting courses are part of the Film Studies Program and have their own sign-up process. However, if you are admitted to a screenwriting course in addition to a creative writing course, you are strongly advised to take only one writing class in any given semester.)

Admit lists for writing courses will be posted on the bulletin board near Prof. Szell's office (423 Barnard Hall), on the departmental bulletin board across from 417 Barnard Hall, and on the English Department website.

Because writing courses generally have more applicants than available places, you should have an alternative course in mind. Students cannot add writing courses to their schedules until after they are admitted.

The instructor will assume that any student absent from the first class meeting is no longer interested in enrolling and will remove that student's name from the list, including the waiting list if there is one.

Questions may be directed to Prof. Timea Szell, Director of Creative Writing at tszell@barard.edu.

To Apply for a Writing Concentration:

Fill out the Google Form application for Creative Writing Concentration. For the 2018-2019 academic year, the deadline for the creative writing concentration is Friday, April 20, 2018 (11:59pm).
This form is only to apply for the English major's writing concentration: students who are accepted still need to declare their writing concentration (see the Declaration of Writing Concentration Form lower on this page). For details on how and when to apply for this concentration, visit the Writing Concentration requirements page.

To Apply for a Special Project / Independent Study:

Please note: all paperwork for Special Projects and Independent Study must be completed, signed, and turned in to the English Department Administrator by 4pm on the day BEFORE the last day of the final Program Filing Period for the semester (occuring in September for the fall semester and January for the spring semester).

Application for ENGL BC3996 (One-Point Add-On Special Project) Used in combination with a dramatic literature course by senior English majors with theatre concentrations who are writing a senior project. In rare cases, the English Department Chair may permit an English major not concentrating in theatre to take ENGL BC3996 in combination with another course.